Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was little China could do last week, but that little she did. Finance Minister H. H. Rung sent a protest against the U. S. silver policy to the state department in Washington. Timed to accompany the protest went several unofficial threats. Unless the U. S. stopped deflating China's currency, she might be forced to switch from silver to gold. She could do this because the Central Bank of China has shipped no gold since August, has built up heavy reserve stocks, could increase these stocks by declaring an embargo on silver and selling silver through the Government...
...protest remained just a protest, but President Roosevelt regarded it seriously enough to call a special conference with Secretary of State Hull and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to see what might be done...
...President Angell's support, the Yale Daily News in an editorial today backed the University's plans to welcome the Italian students tomorrow, and as evidence in support of its opinion cited President Conant's hospitality to Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl last June. The editorial, which followed an open protest by the National Student League against any official welcome for the visitors also favored Mr. Conant's refusal to accept the Nazi's scholarship gift...
...President's recent fireside talk which has been so hardly dealt with in the conservative Boston press, was motivated, after a long period of silence, by the greatest concert of protest since the latter months of the Hoover administration. There can be no doubt that it was this outcry that called forth the speech, and similarly there can be no doubt that Mr. Roosevelt is well informed of the extent of the outcry, but whether the Boston Tories secure in a brass-bound provincialism, are well aware of the currents of thought elsewhere in the country can fairly be doubted...
...tacks that time & again outmaneuvered the Englishman, showed its stern to the challenger to round the second mark almost three minutes ahead. Despite a great flash of savage speed in the home stretch, Endeavour was unable to overcome the three minute handicap, trailed home by 55 sec. Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been the greatest race of the series merely climaxed a growing unpleasantness that added nothing toward international racing goodwill. That night the 1934 America's Cup races were still anybody...